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Showrunner Krista Vernoff says Meredith and Derek wouldn’t have dated in the wake of the #MeToo movement (Picture: Getty)

Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff says Meredith and Derek wouldn’t have got together in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Derek was Meredith’s boss while she was an intern, and the fact that he ‘pursued’ her would have been a bit off in the current social climate, says Vernoff.

She said: ‘If you look at, for example, Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd through the lens of Time’s Up and #MeToo, he was her boss, she was an intern, and she kept saying, “No, walk away from me”, and he kept pursuing her, and that is probably not a story we would tell on the show today, and it’s a beautiful reflection of the changing times.’

Derek and Meredith relationship is ‘not a story we would tell today’, says Vernoff (Picture: Getty Images)

But in an interview with Los Angeles Times she teased that there would be a ‘reversal’ on that storyline with a new love triangle involving Meredith and resident Delcuca.

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Vernoff added: ‘We’re having to talk about and look at power dynamics. It is an ongoing conversation in the writers’ room. How do we tell that story in a way that feels honest and romantic and sexy and yet proactive and progressive?’